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KARACHI - The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) reiterated its resolve to go ahead with a 'peaceful countrywide shutter-down strike', backed by traders and transporters, on December 31 to protest any amendments in the blasphemy laws in a press conference on Wednesday.
"We will prove that Karachi is a city of 'Ghulaman-e-Mustafa' (lovers of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)," JUI-F Karachi Ameer Qari Muhammad Usman said.
Before leaving for Umrah the same day, party chief Fazlur Rehman

ISLAMABAD - The JUI-F decided against joining the PML-Q to form a coalition government in Balochistan as it did not have even a single Baloch member in the provincial assembly to be appointed the chief minister.
The JUI-F Central Executive Council (CEC), which met on Wednesday, was divided over whether to continue as part of the present political set up in Balochistan or make a move to form its own government with its parliamentary leader Abdul Wassey as the chief minister, a

ISLAMABAD - In a bid to keep the JUI-F engaged, the government is following a stick-and-carrot policy to pull the party back into the coalition government.
"On one hand, the government has given a green signal to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to move against former housing minister Rehmatullah Kakar to put pressure on the JUI-F, while on the other, no step has been taken to accept the resignations filed by JUI ministers Attaur Rehman and Rehmatullah Kakar," a source

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) are in the process of evolving a strategy on how to take over Balochistan by overthrowing the Pakistan People's Party-led government, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to a PML-Q source, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, in his recent meetings with JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman, proposed the latter to form a coalition government in Balochistan.
Majority: "Chaudhry Shujaat told

ISLAMABAD - The PPP-led government on Saturday continued its efforts to patch up with the JUI-F, as Interior Minister Rehman Malik and ANP President Asfandyar Wali separately called on Fazlur Rehman to convince him to rejoin the government.
A JUI-F source told Pakistan Today that Fazl politely said no to both of them. He said both leaders listened to the JUI-F's apprehensions and concerns and assured the party that it would be redressed at the earliest. The source said instead of

ISLAMABAD - With the government's efforts to woo JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman failing, President Asif Ali Zardari took the initiative himself and met Fazl after seeing off Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at the Presidency on Saturday.
However, according to private TV channels there was no breakthrough in the two-hour-long meeting as Fazl continued to stick to his stance. After the Chinese PM left, President Zardari reportedly asked Fazl to stay back for a meeting, apparently to

ISLAMABAD - In a bid to give a tough time to its former coalition partner, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) is poised to evolve a strategy for an "in-house change" in its forthcoming executive council's meeting scheduled for December 22 in Islamabad.
"The in-house change remains the party's top priority. However, in case the attempt ends in desperation, it would lead to formation of a new alliance, consisting of the JUI-F, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Muslim

ISLAMABAD: After quitting the federal government, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) is seriously considering parting ways with the Pakistan People's Party-led governments in Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).
Insiders told Pakistan Today on Thursday that the JUI-F had decided to sit on the opposition benches during the forthcoming National Assembly session and it would also move to the other side of the isle in the upcoming Senate session as well.
A JUI-F source

ISLAMABAD: Soon after the sacking of Azam Khan Swati, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Tuesday stepped out of the ruling coalition in protest against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's decision to fire the party's senator from the federal cabinet without taking the leadership into confidence.
Announcing the decision taken in a closed-door emergency meeting of the top party brass, JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman said two other ministers of his party had also resigned in

LAHORE: The opposition parties are skeptical about the prospects of the reversal of JUI-F's decision to quit the coalition government, however, the PPP believes the issue will be resolved amicably. PPP Secretary Information Fauzia Wahab said the party had historic relations with the JUI-F and the government would bring all allies back in its fold by addressing their grievances.
However, she made it clear that her party and the government would not initiate any step that might

ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F chief Fazlur Rehman announced on Tuesday that his party left the Pakistan People's Party-led coalition government at centre in protest of sacking of Azam Swati from the federal cabinet, a private TV channel reported.
Fazl, who also heads the Kashmir Committee, announced the decision after chairing an emergency meeting of the JUI-F Majlis-e-Shura held here to review the situation emerged after Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilanu sacked two of his

ISLAMABAD: The PML-Q, MQM, JUI-F and other minor political parties, who have vowed to oppose the Reformed General Sales Tax Bill 2010 in totality, are likely to boycott the voting on the recommendations finalised by the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Friday, as experts say the parties have no other option left with them.
"These political parties, including my party, the PML- Q, who have decided to oppose the anti-poor bill, will find themselves in a fix when the report

ISLAMABAD: The government's coalition partners, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F, on Wednesday took a U-turn on their respective stances on the reformed General Sales Tax (GST) bill, with the former endorsing the decisions of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and the latter opposing the bill in the Senate.
In the Senate body on finance's Wednesday meeting, MQM's Senator Ahmed Ali, who is the chairman of the committee, said that the proceedings on

PESHAWAR
Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Fazal (JUI-F) leader Mufti Kefayat Ullah has condemned the raid on Jamia Imdad-Ul-Uloom Peshawar, terming it a disgrace to the madrassa.
Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar press Club, Kifayatullah said the operation was conducted during the examination which depressed the students. He added that operation was carried out according to the instructions of the provincial government in which thousands of innocent students were tortured